All sorted. No need to upgrade the case and I've got an 850W PSU for less than $20 :cool:
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All sorted. No need to upgrade the case and I've got an 850W PSU for less than $20 :cool:
Another question. Should I still get the 2.8Ghz dual core or the Q6600 Quad core? My brother tells me the quad core is better for general use but the dual core will be faster for gaming. Is this right?
It depends on what your using it for. I have a dual core 3.0ghz and I game and use virtual pcs and its fine. There isn't anything that uses the dual or the quad core yet. Your kinda wasting for money going for a quad...unless its cheaper than the Dual core.
AFAIK windows seven will use the extra cores but really thats the only prog out there at the moment that uses it....save your money and buy a better GPU instead
Why do you keep saying that nothing uses multicore?
Almost all modern games utilize at least 2 cores , usually when talking about dual vs quad for gaming , Dual has the advantage of overclocking a bit higher hence better speeds.
Q6600 is a nice chip , I would recommend it for general use.
a lot of things utilise dual core now.
quad core, it will eventually
Pretty excited, buying all my bits and pieces today. Hopefully someone can fit them for me :P
Where are you getting your information rocco?
Maybe you should look at more recent sites?
Crysis / GTAIV / Call of duty / oblivion / fallout 3 / street fighter 4 / resident evil 5 .
I could go on ..
All of these games support dual core
GTAIV will even utilize all 4 cores on a quad processor.
Even old games like quake 3 and quake 4 will use dual core if you tell it to.
Get factual evidence that games or applications do not support dual or quad core processing before commenting again.
EDIT : In fact Assasins creed will only run on a dual core and nothing less , It is a requirement.
Ok so I just got back from the city and here's what I purchased
- Intel E8400 Dual core CPU @ 3.0Ghz 6mb cache 1333Mhz FSB
- 4x 1GB Kingston DDR2-800 RAM modules
- 2x Seagate SATA 500GB HDD (I am going to run RAID 0)
- Gigabyte 1GB 9800GT Nvidia GFX card hardware overclocked
- Shaw 860W tri-fan PSU
So fingers crossed the poor old HP Media center can cope :p